Kathleen M. Sakamoto, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chief
Office Location:  A2-412 MDCC CHS
Phone: (310) 794-7007
Fax: (310) 206-8089

Email: kms@ucla.edu or ksakamoto@mednet.ucla.edu

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Introduction

Kathleen Sakamoto is Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Division Chief of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, and Vice-Chair of Translational Research, Mattel Children?s Hospital UCLA. Dr. Sakamoto is also Associate Co-Director of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Signal Transduction Program Area. She is also a member of the Molecular Biology Institute and the California Nanosystems Institute. Dr. Sakamoto received a B.A. in Biology, cum laude from Williams College, M.D. from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and a Ph.D. in Biology from the California Institute of Technology.

Dr. Sakamoto was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Judith Gasson (Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine). She received her Ph.D. in the laboratory of Ray Deshaies, Ph.D. (Division of Biology, HHMI, Caltech).

She joined the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine in 1993 as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. She has been the recipient of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar Award, Western Society for Pediatric Research Ross Award in Research, and an American Society of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Young Investigator Award. Dr. Sakamoto is a member of the American Pediatric Society and the Society for Pediatric Research. Her major research focus has been the molecular pathogenesis of leukemogenesis, novel therapeutics for treatment of leukemia, and targeting cancer-causing proteins for ubiquitination and degradation.

Dr. Sakamoto serves on grant review committees for the NIH, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America, Concern Foundation, New York and Maryland Stem Cell Program, and St. Balderick's Foundation.

The UCLA Developmental Hematology Training Program is funded by the NIH/NHLBI and supports four postdoctoral fellows per year.